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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
That’s why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?
We’ve grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us.
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can’t even make mistakes on our own account!
A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel,
